Show THE DAILY DArLY WASHINGTON MERRY MERRY MERRY-GO ROUND eGO GO ROUND AROUND Trade Trado M Mark rk By Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen AUen Authors of oZ Washington Round Go and More Mora Oo Meru V WASHINGTON Danger ASHINGTON-Danger Danger flags arc are flying in inthe inthe inthe the Agricultural Adjustment association This organization charged with doing for agriculture agriculture ture what N R A is doing for industry has been rife with dissension I Charley Brand of the A. A A. A A. A who was found acting as secretary of the National Fertilizer association at the same time he was h holding a government job has re re- re signed 0 I George Peck the General Johnson of agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture also is under fire He Ho has taken into his office as personal counsel one Fred Lee a farm organization at at- at torney Lee is not on official status does docs not draw a government salary This is contrary to law No person can work for th the government government government govern govern- ment unless he draws raws salary even if only a dollar a 0 A somewhat similar incident when Senator Hiram Bin Bingham Binham ham of Connecticut permitted the representative of ot a Connecticut manufacturers' manufacturers association to help draft the Smoot-Hawley Smoot tariff act net caused a storm of protest 0 0 0 Behind the Peek Lee incident is a long story with its foundation in growing friction between the liberals and conservatives in the department of agriculture When the AAA was being organized Peek wanted to make his friend Fr Fred d Lee general counsel for the organization In fact he lie even sent a bill to congress to private te practice after he would leave government ser ser- vice Present rules require that no man having haying hav hay ing worked for the department of agriculture may practice law Jaw before it until he has been in hi private life for two years Peek wanted this changed But congress balked Other quarters also balked at Lees Lee's appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment as general counsel Foremost of these was Reggie Tugwell forthright assistant secre secre- tary He not only balked but secured the ap appointment appointment appointment ap- ap of Jerome Frank instead S Now Lee sits in Peeks Peek's office in a private capacity scans Franks Frank's legal opinions advises Peek regarding them It is a situation which cannot last THE TUE STRAIN OF THE PRESIDENCY The telegrams sent by President Roosevelt notifying former residents of ot the White House of the death of ike Hoover emphasized the heavy mortality of ot our former presidents The faithful Ike had been major domo of the White House under eight different dents But Roosevelt's telegram telegram except except in the case of Herbert Hoover went Hoover went not to these presidents but to Mrs Grover Cleveland Preston Mrs Benjamin Ben Ben- jamin jamira Harrison Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Mrs William Howard Taft Mrs Woodrow Wilson Vilson and Mrs Calvin Coolidge NO BACK PATTING President Roosevelt's night conference with leaders of the soft coal industry was no pat- pat the on affair F. F D. D R. R did little smiling smiling smil smil- ing at that confab Without wasting time on rhetorical preliminaries prelim prelim- manes he bluntly informed the operators that he was fed up with endless code palavering that they had caused more trouble than any other group and that if they couldn't reach an agreement he was prepared to impose a code and take the issue of their resistance to the country Ill give you exactly 24 hours Roosevelt concluded The operators' operators answer was conciliatory We uWe think we can do it in that time Mr l President their spokesman said but better give us s 36 hours to be sure You get 24 h hours urs and that's all F D. D R. R shot back The president was not bluffing He was angry meant business e 0 0 0 Had the operators showed fight Light he was ready for them He was prepared to promulgate promulgate gate gatea a code and throw it open to signature by those operators who were willing to cooperate He expected Alabama western Kentucky regions re regions re- re gions glons and other nonunion southern operators to balk But he had a big bi stick ready It is the presidents president's intention if necessary to isolate these coal regions by preventing their interstate shipment of coal For several days Attorney General Cummings has been studying federal statutes in preparation for tor such an unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented un un- action It is his private opinion that this drastic cudgel can be used if the situation situation situation sit sit- sit sit- warrants it ROUND MERRY-GO-ROUND The urge for hand first-hand observation was not the only reason for the European jaunt of Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator William Gibbs McAdoo and North Carolinas Carolina's Caro Caro- linas lina's Senator Robert R. R Reynolds That was their public explanation The real reason was the desire to escape the endless horde of job seekers The two senators told friends before departing that as long as they stayed in the country there was no rao escape from clamorous applicants nt that the only way they could ob obtain ob- ob tam tam tain relief was vas vasto to put a broad ocean behind them 0 S 0 Over dependent children in 44 states are being cared for in their own homes under mothers' mothers aid laws 0 0 0 Mrs Franklin D. D Roosevelt usually wears inexpensive jewelry but occasionally with eve eve- evening ning fling attire she wears a magnificent string of diamonds They are an art inauguration present from her het godmother Mrs Henry Parr Parrish sh at whose home she he was married The Tho first lady of the land id has nas received d as gifts or bought enough and ami bedspreads to equip a large hotel she is buying no more Copyright 1933 br United G ture Syndicate Inc |